Transpacific Imaginations : History, Literature, Counterpoetics / Yunte Huang.
Huang, Yunte, author.
2008
PS159.A85 H83 2008
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Title Transpacific Imaginations : History, Literature, Counterpoetics / Yunte Huang.
Author Huang, Yunte, author.
ISBN 9780674273979
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674273979
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2008]
Copyright ©2008
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (202 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674273979 doi
Call Number PS159.A85 H83 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9/325
Summary Transpacific Imaginations is a study of how American literature is enmeshed with the literatures of Asia. The book begins with Western encounters with the Pacific: Yunte Huang reads Moby Dick as a Pacific work, looks at Henry Adams's not talking about his travels in Japan and the Pacific basin in his autobiography, and compares Mark Twain to Liang Qichao. Huang then turns to Asian American encounters with the Pacific, concentrating on the "Angel Island" poems and on works by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Araki Yasusada. Huang's argument that the Pacific forms American literature more than is generally acknowledged is a major contribution to our understanding of literary history. The book is in dialogue with cross-cultural studies of the Pacific and with contemporary innovative poetics. Huang has found a vehicle to join Asians and Westerners at the deepest level, and that vehicle is poetry. Poets can best imagine an ethical ground upon which different people join hands. Huang asks us to contribute to this effort by understanding the poets and writers already in the process of linking diverse peoples.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Transpacific as a Critical Space
PART ONE History: And the Views from the Shores
1 Mark Twain: Letters from Hawaii
2 Henry Adams: In Japan and the South Seas
3 Liang Qichao: A Journey to the New Continent
PART TWO Literature: Moby-Dick in the Pacific
4 Collecting in the Pacific
5 Ahab's Collectibles: The White Whale and the Yellow Tigers
6 Ishmael, a Pacific Historian
7 Queequeg, the Pacific Man
8 Melville's Pacific Becoming: Fancy, Fate, Finis
PART THREE Counterpoetics: Islands, Legends, Maps
9 The Poetics of Error: Angel Island
10 Legends from Camp: Lawson Fusao Inada
11 Mapping Histories: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Conclusion: Between History and Literature- A Poetics of Acknowledgment
Notes
Index

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